Transfarmation is a new and exciting area of agriculture, where plant-based farmers are helping livestock farmers to ‘transfarm’ over to a new way of farming, by growing more profitable crops like oats (for the huge oat milk industry).
This way farmers retain long-held family farms, but embrace the new plant-based movement. Remaining animals are then not over-bred, but instead still graze the land, and live akin to animals in a farm sanctuary, just living and enjoying life, as God’s creatures.
The Swiss farmer (helping others to transfarm’)
Sarah Heiligtag is a Swiss vegan farmer, who after receiving a phone call from a struggling dairy farmer (racked with guilt at sending his animals to slaughter) asked her for help. He asked if there was any way he could make money, and she said yes.
Today Sarah has helped over 100 farms go vegan, but ‘transfarming’ their land over to growing more profitable crops like oats (the animals remaining simply live out the rest of their lives in peace).
Sarah and her husband (along with a friend) founded an animal sanctuary near Zurich, designed to help educate on plant-based agriculture, as well as be a haven for rescued creatures. It almost accidentally then became a contact point for farmers, who are interested in livestock-free agriculture:
If you are a farmer and have questions about farming without ‘farm’ animals or about setting up a life-saving farm, do not hesitate to contact us. We will be happy to advise you, with no obligation. In the end, the goal is for you to be able to do what really fulfils you, and be true to your true self.
Read stories of farmers who gave up farming animals, to grow plants instead. These include a couple who became the first UK beef farmers to transition to an organic permaculture farm and vegan cooking school, and two couples in Switzerland (one now grows oats to make plant milk, the other grows chickpeas to make local hummus!)
5 Easy Ways to Help Stop Factory Farming
Transfarmation is a book by the president of US charity Mercy For Animals, showing how food and farming have failed over decades, and how factory farmers, rescued farm animals and rural communities are now being transfarmed into new starts.
- Meet a family farm that was crushed by factory farming who instead now have transitioned to growing hemp and rescuing dogs.
- Meet Norma the former industrial dairy cow who was was almost killed, after injuring a worker in an effort to protect her calf.
- And communities that pollute historically black areas with air and water pollution from hog farms. And how we can stop this to create a compassionate food system.
Transfarmation is a farming revolution, that holds the promise of a more efficient and sustainable future for agriculture. Rather than ‘vegans vs farmers’, they are getting together to create local sustainable food, so your oat milk can be delivered in glass bottles from the local friendly organic farmer, rather than shipped in Tetrapaks from the other side of the world.
